Joining Sunday Stills for the first time. This week, the challenge is "to find an opening (a window, knothole, fence…) and use it to frame something on the other side." (I am using photos from our FullTime-Life archives just this once. From now on, I will try to meet this weekly theme challenge with new pictures!)
This challenge immediately made me think of the Chinese Garden in Portland Oregon. This meditative space is an area of beauty and serenity in the middle of the City.
In this other picture, you can see the high rise building just beyond the garden's boundaries.
If I lived or worked in that building, I'd visit this garden every day!
Looking ...and walking ... through these gates help to establish a feeling of serenity .... as if you've left the cares of the world on the other side.
The picture below is from the Japanese Garden at House on the Rock, in Wisconsin.
We enjoyed the Garden more than we did the rest of that particular attraction.
Here's a picture of one of the serene spaces beyound the gate.
